Does PLA or corn plastic biodegrade in landfills, causing methane?

<p>While PLA is compostable, it will only biodegrade in the right conditions. Commercial compost facilities have the capacity to maintain ideal composting conditions and sustained heat and moisture needed for PLA to break down entirely with the appropriate soil bacteria, yeast, and fungi. In a landfill, our products are stable and do not breakdown readily. Landfills are anaerobic environments that are sealed. PLA does not degrade readily in these situations and according to our suppliers of PLA, it is not a significant contributor to landfill methane. We recommend disposing of PLA products in a commercial compost facility only. </p>

Sustainability

Legal Stuff

Contact Us

As of 1 October, 2016, TWG will be upgrading our systems.
This means that you will have to upgrade your browser and
any other related software. We realize that this may impact
your productivity as you pause to modify systems at your facility.
However, the mutual security improvements achieved by this change
will assist you, our customers as well as TWG in keeping your data safe from harm.